Unit-compartment dumping-body.



W. B. LONGEST. UNIT GOMPARTMENT DUMPING BODY.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 29, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2, 1912.

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WILLIAM B. LONGEST, 0F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

UNIT-GOMPARTM'E'NT DUMPING-BODY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVIIJLIAM B. LoNons'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented anew and useful Unit-Compartment Dumping Body, of which the following is a specification.

This invention-relates to improvements in dumping vehicles, and more particularly to the body portion thereof and means for controlling the same. I The object of my present invention is to so construct a dumping vehicle that its body portion shall comprise a plurality of compartments or units arranged transversely and mounted so as to be capable of being independently tilted to dump the contents at either side ofthe vehicle.

- A further object is to provide a dumping vehicle having a plurality of independent transversely disposed compartments, with simple and eflicient means for normally sus\ taining the compartments in horizontal posi tion and permit any of them to be dumped independently of'the others ateither side of the vehicle.

With these and other objects in'view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a vehicle embodying my improvements; Fig. 2 is an end view with one of the compartments or units shown in different dumping positions, by dotted lines, and Fig. .3 is an enlarged detail view showing the supporting means.

1 represents the elongated platform of a motor vehicle, said platform being suitably supported on trucks 2-3. A motor t is supported by the platform and connected by suitable gearing 5 with the wheels of the rear truck,a drivers seat 6 and controllingmechanism 8 being located upon the forward end of the platform. A number of brackets 9 are located upon the platform in line with the longitudinal center thereof and serve to supports long, horizontal shaft 10 which extends from the drivers seat to the .rear end of theplatform. The brackets 9 Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 29, 1911.

Patented Jan. 2,1912. Serial No. 830,273.

upon the horizontal shaft 10 at points on opposite sides of the bracket.

Each body unit or compartment is of sutlieient length to overhang or extend laterally beyond the lines of the wheels .of the vehicle as clearly shown in Fig. 2, and at both ends of each body unit or compartment, gates 12 are provided. .Each gate is hinged at its lower edge (as at 13) to a body unit, and is provided with side wings 14 which embrace the sides of the body unit when the door is closed. When a body unit is tilted in one direction or the other, the gate can be swung down as shown in Fig. 2 and made to forma chute which projects well beyond the line of the vehicle wheels, being held in such position by the engagement of books 15 on the gate wings '14 with pins 16 near the upper edge of the body unit.

The body units or compartments are normally supported in horizontal positions and permitted to be tilted toward either side of the vehicle, by means of devices which will now be described, but as the supporting and releasing devices for the several body units are the same a detail description of one set of these devices will sufiice for all.

of the upper prop member 19 is of consid-' erable length so as to afford an extended bearing against the under face of the body unit and enters between flanges or angle irons 22 secured to said body unit to prevent accidental lateral displacement of said prop member 19. Beneath each body unit, a bracket 23 is secured upon the platform 1 and with this bracket, the inner endsof rods 2% are pivotally connected. A clamp is located near theouter end of each rod 24 and in position to engage an intermediate portion of the pivot pin which connects the prop members. The outer end of-the rod is threaded for the accommodation of a nut 26 for securing the clamp to said pivot 11% tical alinement with each otherathe body unit will be firmly supported in a horizontal withdrawing its upper member 19 from bctween the angle irons 22, and be permitted to drop to the dotted line position. The body unit can now be tilted on its central support on the long shaft 10 and the contents dumped, the chute formed by the open gate causing the material to be delivered a considerable distance laterally beyond the line of the vehicle, as before stated.

In the drawings I have shown the body of the vehicle as composed of four independent units or compartments but it is apparent that a greater or less number may be employed.

it will be observed that the several body units are disposed transversely of the vehicle, and therefore, any one or more of them can be dumped, without disturbing the equilibrium of the remainder of the load, or subjecting the vehicle to strains such as are experienced when the load on a vehicle is unequally distributed.

My improved vehicle is very valuable for delivering such material as coal, when it is desired to supply several orders in different localities, and when the coal or other material is to be discharged at one side or the other of a narrow alley Where turning of the vehicle could not be accomplished.

My improvements are simple in construction and can be readily operated by a single I person to accomplishthe very desirable results hereinbet'ore stated.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

' 1. In a dumping vehicle, the combination with a wheeled frame, of a plurality of inde 'iemlent dumping body units disposed transversely over the same and each pivotally supported centrally between its ends, of a collapsible prop ateach side of the pivotal support of each body unit, rods pivotally attached to the wheeled frame, and clamps mounted on said rods and adapted to be connected with the props to normally prevent collapse of the same.

.2. In a dumping vehicle, the combination- P. S. LONGEST, DALLAS E. FURLONG. 

